Manufacturing Plant Electrician — Power & Automation

Ready to keep a high-volume facility powered, safe, and running?

If you can translate schematics into flawless installations, tame a servo fault before it slows production, and coach teammates along the way, you’ll thrive here.

Core Impact Areas

• Troubleshooting & Collaboration: Test/diagnose equipment issues and align fixes with mechanics and supervisors.
• Compliance: Use your NEC expertise to ensure adherence to plant safety protocols.
• Manufacturing Expertise: Experience with complex manufacturing environments preferred.
• Control Panels: Build/install 24–480V panels from electrical prints.
• Automation & Networks: Work with digital/analog I/O and industrial networking; Ethernet and fiber are a plus.
• Advanced Motion: Maintain and troubleshoot servos, servo amps, and controllers.
• Facility-Wide Reliability: Proactively resolve electrical issues across buildings and grounds.
• Conduit & Conductors: Bend/install various conduit types; correctly size wire/conduit and perform terminations based on distance and FLA.
• Power Systems: Confident with 24V–480V; perform install/maintenance/repair on low- and high-voltage systems.
• Documentation: Read/interpret electrical schematics; source parts via manuals and prints.
• Communication: Deliver clear written and verbal instructions.
• Team & Vendors: Build trust with maintenance peers, contractors, and suppliers.
• Flexibility: Other duties as assigned.

Food Safety Responsibilities

• Ensure product is free from contamination.
• Follow all Ken’s Foods Security and GMP policies.
• Report suspicious activity in and around the plant.
• Continuously inspect work areas for potential contamination.

What You Know

• Language: Read/interpret safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals; write routine reports/correspondence; present effectively to groups of employees or customers.
• Math: Perform arithmetic with whole numbers, fractions, and decimals; compute rate, ratio, and percent; draw/interpret bar graphs.
• Reasoning: Solve practical problems with limited standardization; interpret written, oral, diagram, and schedule-based instructions.

Physical Demands

• Frequent standing, walking, manual dexterity, and reaching.
• Occasional sitting; climbing/balancing; stooping, kneeling, crouching, or crawling; talking/hearing.
• Lift/move up to 10 lbs frequently and more than 100 lbs occasionally.
• Vision: ability to adjust focus.

Mental Alertness Requirements

• Work continuously alert and safely.
• Execute tasks requiring strong judgment and cognitive function.
• No mental/physical impairments that would affect safe, competent performance.
• Respond swiftly and appropriately to operating conditions.
• Work without fatigue.
• Accurately judge time and distance.
• Quickly store and recall short-term instructions.
• Maintain concentration.
• Adapt to sudden environmental changes, emergencies, and alarms.
• Show a caring, committed, safety-forward attitude.
• Partner with teammates at different skill levels; mentor and share knowledge.

Work Environment

Frequent exposure to moving mechanical parts; occasional exposure to wet/humid conditions, heights, fumes/airborne particles, toxic/caustic chemicals, outdoor weather, extreme cold/heat, and risk of electrical shock. Noise is typically loud.

Supervisory Responsibilities

None.

Compliance Statements

ESSENTIAL QUALIFICATIONS

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.